MSVC does not support fork, which is a hard requirement for those two applications Just as an FYI, to the best I can tell, you can not compile ffserver or ffplay using the microsoft compiler toolchain.

Look at this, for a typical user complain.so if you like to introduce new URL protocol for yours super-duper streaming web-service, or integrating yours benchmark breaker HEVC decoder ,on Windows your're in trouble.ĭon't get me wrong, building SW, while could be highly intricate, isn't a rocket science, the crux of the challenge is simply a lot of knowledge islands (StackOverflow questions, blogs, forums what have you), each one of 'em covers a little aspect of the build process.

While there are pre-built binaries for Windows, building ffmpeg or customizing its source on Windows, seems as a very gentle art. Ffmpeg is an AMAZING framework for multimedia decoding, transcoding, streaming and even playing-back ( ffplay is a full-blown video player, written in less than 1000 LOC of plain C) After the build completes, you’ll end up with the binaries inside ffmpeg-install folder (provided to the prefix parameter in configure). Obviously you can modify the parameters above as it fits your needs. configure -enable-static -disable-shared -disable-debug -disable-doc -disable-x86asm -enable-gpl -enable-libx264 -prefix=/Users/someuser/ffmpeg-install The last think you need to do, is to configure and build it. Now, download FFmpeg source codes from the following link and extract them somewhere on your computer. Here is what you need to run from Terminal: git clone Start by getting x264 source codes, configuring and then building them. This is why I thought I should gather them up into a single post for easier reference later on.

I had to build FFmpeg with x264 support on macO statically, so I had to look around for a bunch of scattered commands.

Ffmpeg build with windows